Nikon D70-series, D200BODY, D200OUTFIT, D200KIT, 17002 manual 190, Sist

Technical Notes—Troubleshooting

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Problem	Solution
	• Unlock focus area selector.	53
	• Closest subject priority is in effect.	54
Can not select focus area.	• Monitor is on: camera in playback mode.	98
	• Exposure meters are off: press shutter-release	16
	button halfway.
	• Camera is in focus mode C.	51
	• Center focus area or focus area group is not	53,
	selected or closest priority is selected for	54,
	group dynamic-area AF.	149
AF-assist illuminator does not light.	• Off selected for Custom Setting a9 (AF As-	152
	sist).
	• Illuminator has turned off automatically. Il-	58
	luminator may become hot with continued
	use; wait for lamp to cool down.
	Flash in use. Flash sync speed can be selected
Full range of shutter speeds not avail-	using Custom Setting e1 (Flash Sync Speed);
	when using optional SB-800, SB-600, or SB-	160
able.	R200 Speedlight, choose 1/250 s (Auto FP) for
	full range of shutter speeds.
Focus does not lock when shutter-re-	Camera is in focus mode C: use AE-L/AF-Lbutton	56
lease button is pressed halfway.	to lock focus.
Area shown in viewfinder is smaller	Viewfinder has vertical and horizontal frame	—
than final photo.	coverage of about 95%.
	• Rotate focus-mode selector to S or C.	51
Photos are out of focus.	• Camera unable to focus using autofocus: use	56,
	manual focus or focus lock.	60
Recording time increases.	Turn noise reduction off.	131
	• Choose lower ISO sensitivity or turn high ISO	33,
Randomly-spaced bright pixels (“noise”)	noise reduction on.	131
appear in photos.	• Shutter speed is slower than 8 s: use long ex-	131
	posure noise reduction.
Blotches appear on photos.	• Clean lens.	184
	• Clean low-pass filter.	185
Colors are unnatural.	• Adjust white balance to match light source.	35
	• Adjust Optimize Image settings.	45
Continuous shooting unavailable.	Lower flash.	78
RAW image is not played back.	Photo taken at image quality of NEF+JPEG.	28
Can not measure white balance.	Subject is too dark or too bright.	41
Image can not be selected as source	Image was not created with D200.	42
for preset white balance.